Thirty miles southwest of the city of Artun, there was a mist-covered hill.

On the hill, there is a pond in three steps, a spring in five steps, all the flowing is geothermal warm water, the fog is shrouded all the year round, and the four seasons are like spring, so it is named Hot Spring Mountain.

With Hot Spring Mountain as the center, there are three small towns in the northwest, southwest, and southeast for more than ten miles, all of which are fiefdoms of the Bailu family.

The town in the southeast, which is closest to Hot Springs Lodge, is called Antlers.

The mayor of Antlers has been a little annoyed lately, and there has been more chaos in the town in the past two months than in the past two years combined.

Originally, it was a century-old brewing family in the town, and the brewery was set on fire.

This is a seemingly ordinary arson case, but the next day the bitter master did not come to report the case, but more than a dozen women who appeared out of nowhere ran to the town guard station, accused the brewing family of colluding with bandits, abducting and selling women from good families, and opening a prostitute parlor under the brewery.

According to the more than a dozen women, they were trafficked from other towns, and some of them had even been working as prostitutes in the brewery for more than three years, and even had children.

After asking, I learned that it was a swordsman with a dark gold pattern mask who rescued them, and before leaving, he left a red rose flower behind.

When the mayor finally settled the dozen or so women properly, the red rose appeared on his desk again.

In this way, after two months, whenever that red rose appeared, someone would always be unlucky, and the mayor would not be at peace.

"Roses don't leave fragrance, don't they leave fragrance?"

The mayor looked at the red rose in his hand and had a headache.

The Rose family, one of the five founding families, when the first head of the family was young, only relied on a rose blood sword, galloped the world in the name of the rose mask, punished the evil and eliminated the evil, and there were countless deeds of heroes saving beauty.

Legend has it that every time the Rose Mask is shot, it always leaves a blood-colored rose as a mark.

Such elegant and chic legends are still the most popular characters in the biography.

The mayor of the town is well-informed, how could he not know the meaning of this red rose.

Since he took over as mayor of Antlers, just coordinating disputes between several of the town's oldest families has exhausted all of his energy.

It was only in the past few years that he used the majesty of Count Bailu as an official in the two ministries to temporarily suppress these lawless family forces.

Let them be more restrained and cover up the shady business a little.

finally created a peaceful scene of singing and dancing, and let this red rose pick it up cleanly.

At the strong request of several families, he also organized town guards to arrest this masked swordsman who caused trouble everywhere on charges of destroying private property and killing innocents indiscriminately.

But after several arrests, the town guards were all in the air, and even the masked swordsman left a line of big words behind the town hall:

"It is difficult to enforce the law to eliminate evil, and spare no effort for the tiger!"

Under the sword marks, the most difficult red paint seeped out, and on the snow-white wall, it was particularly eye-catching.

At first glance, it makes people think that the mayor of the town owes a loan shark and has been splashed with paint.

"How can this be justified, how can this be justified!"

The more the mayor thought about it, the more angry he became, he worked hard and ran the situation for most of his life, but he was messed up by a stinky boy who popped up out of nowhere.

He slapped the desk and pointed at the captains of the town guards in front of the case and scolded:

"Rubbish, all rubbish! I can't even catch a hairy boy! I'll be awake tonight, and the whole town will be patrolling!"

At this moment, the door of the mayor's office was suddenly pushed open:

"What's so fun that you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"

A crisp and bright woman's voice came from outside the door, like the joy of a bird's nest in winter, which made people feel relieved when they heard it.

But the mayor of the town couldn't relax, as soon as he heard this lovely voice, he was immediately frightened into a cold sweat, and quickly stood up and greeted the door:

"Ouch, my eldest lady, why don't you notify me when you go down the mountain, I'm so ready to prepare!"

Sure enough, before the mayor could finish speaking, a bright young woman walked in outside the door.

The woman wore a pink plush dress and a moon-white gold-trimmed cape. Long pale blonde hair is slightly curly, with only the right half of the eyebrow bangs.

Under the bangs, there is a faint touch of aqua blue crystal, but it is a heavenly person with the talent of a mage.

"Don't guess, I'm not from the mountain, the academy is on vacation, I'll stop by for a walk, play for two days before returning to the villa. ”

She is the pearl of the Earl of White Deer, the eldest lady of the Hot Springs Villa, Lisa Andres.

Lisa swaggered into the mayor's office, but without any intention of sitting down, she walked out in a small circle.

Seeing this, the mayor hurriedly followed two steps and chased after him.

Lisa walks around the town on weekdays, and the mayor is busy with her, and the cost of eating, drinking, and having fun should be paid in advance by the mayor.

Although he said that he would let the mayor deduct from the taxes paid by the territory, the mayor was not stupid.

Paying for the Earl's pearl in the palm of his hand is an honor that no number of people can ask for. He was kicked in the head by a donkey to be reimbursed in front of the Count.

The two of them walked out of the town hall one after the other, and as they walked, Lisa suddenly stopped, as if she had seen something interesting.

At this moment, it was evening, and the afterglow of the slanting sun splashed on the snow-white exterior wall of the town hall, reflecting the row of bright red characters more and more conspicuously.

Lisa stopped under the wall, lifted her snow-white chin, and admired it with great interest:

"Oh, it's hard to enforce the law and eliminate evil, and spare no effort for the tiger?"

The mayor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and hurriedly said, "Miss, this is all nonsense, and it can't be true." ”

"This character is a standard aristocratic flower style, written more beautifully than me, you say, in your small town of brewing shoes, who can write it?"

Lisa's pale blue eyes squinted at the mayor, as if she really wanted to hear what tricks he could come up with.

In the eyes of the mayor, this kind of look was quite like his father, Earl Bailu, who was not angry and arrogant, and he couldn't help but tremble, his knees were weak, and he almost knelt on the spot.

Seeing the mayor's bear-like appearance, Lisa snorted coldly and said in a coquettish voice, "Say, what's going on?"

Unable to hide from left and right, the mayor gave up the struggle and took out the bright red rose flower from his arms.

"You don't come here like this, Miss Ben receives more flowers in a month than you have in a year in town. Looking at the roses handed by the mayor's fat hand, Lisa dodged half a step away in disgust.

The mayor shrank his hand a little hurtfully, pretending not to see Lisa's serious step back, and said with a bitter face:

"No, there has recently been a young swordsman in town who imitates the original Rose Lord, and his style is exactly the same as that of the Rose Mask back then, which is the mark he left behind. ”

"Oh?" Looking at the delicate blood-like rose, Lisa asked in surprise, "So what you just said in the town hall is also related to him?"

"Yes, all the town guards are on standby tonight, I don't believe I can't hold him!"

At the mention of this fake rose mask, the mayor of the town trembled with anger, but he didn't notice the difference in the tone of the eldest lady.

"Uh-huh, then you guys have to come on. ”

Lisa put on a look of lack of interest, and turned into a leather shop on her own, but with a sly smile on her face:

Are you kidding?

Of course, Miss Ben is going to meet this imposter for a while!